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G21 WORLD HQ - During the waning hours of 2005, we polled our staff writers and the Mailing List Membership for nominees for our "Bottom Ten" list of individuals for the year. Much like Mr. Blackwell's famed "Worst Dressed" list, ours is a reverse listing; we are choosing the people the world could have done without last year.
What follows is a digest of List Member comments and our own final choices of the dregs of humanity last year.
Having conducted this exercise, off and on, for over a decade now (we discontinued it briefly during at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of this decade), I've been often disappointed but more often bemused by the results.
The near unanimity of the Members of our Mailing List was breathtaking, as you'll see. But there were also a few surprise nominees that we never would have imagined making this List ourselves.
Let the Games begin!
The first person to write in with "Bottom Ten" nominees this year was Kim C. of Koh Samui, THAILAND. He wrote:
Hi Rod. My personal bottom ten replete with reasoning is below.... READ MOREYou may read this list in either direction, it does not really matter. Besides that, I am very apathetic and don't really care who's bad or who's good. All a matter of opinion, eh? ;-)
Nonetheless, here 'tis.
10. George Bush, because I am just soooooooo sick of seeing his monkey?face on TV
09. Soddem Hussein, because he looks really bad with a beard
08. God, because She or He?is just so godless in Her or His attitude
07. Michael Jackson, because it is just getting?boring now, that's all
06. Britney Spears, because I just cannot understand how anybody could possibly find her in the least way talented or attractive
ROD AMIS LOOKS BACK AT 2005:
15 December, 2005: When you've been writing for a while, there are two staples for your end of the year column. You can either look back at the year that is coming to a close, taking stock, or you can look forward to coming year, listing your predictions. That latter is always a risky business because people can go back and see how wrong you were about so much. This year, I'm taking the safe choice.
The most definitive thing about 2005 in the minds of many is that it was a year of great loss.
Record numbers of American and Iraqi lives were lost in a ginned up war for which another round of elections are being called a "turning point," as was the last round. Oddly, at none of these turning points has America been in the position to cease being an occupying power.
In 2005, we lost Johnny Carson, Hunter S. Thompson, Anne Bancroft, Luther Vandross, Gretchen Franklin, James Doohan, Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam, Robert Moog, Rosa Parks, Sheree North, James King, Pat Morita, Link Wray, Richard Pryor, Stanley "Tookie" Williams and William Proxmire (as I write this).
We lost coastal cities in Southeast Asia to a killer tsunami, central Pakistan and much of Kashmir to killer quakes, cities on the coasts of Vietnam and south China to additional typhoons, much of the population of Malawi to starvation with half the population of that benighted country still threatened by same, parts of Guatemala to hurricanes and mudslides, part of the Gulf coast of the United States to hurricanes; we lost New Orleans. ... READ MORE
MPUTHUM NTABENI PROVIDES A COLLECTION OF QUOTES:
G21's Best Quotes of 2005 - Mphuthumi Ntabeni looks back at the closing year and provides the best lines, observations and insights, from his perspective, published by the The World's Magazine in 2005.
East London, SOUTH AFRICA - Even a man stupid enough to try to putting out fire with gasoline should be able to make it in this city during Mardi Gras -- but I'm still waiting for you to prove it by me. (Rod Amis)
Tsunami, hurricanes, droughts, floods and earthquakes. Each has claimed its own victims. But the greatest tragedy of them all is the acknowledgement by the media that with the earthquake in Asia, the latest disaster to devastate our planet, the world and its people has had its fill of sorrow. Images of dying children no longer evoke sympathy or financial contributions. We simply switch off the television. We have experienced a glut of disaster, sorrow and need, a surfeit. We are numbed to images of sadness, starvation and death. Our humanity has been tested and found to be lacking. (A.J.)
100,000 dead Iraqis so that we can control Iraqi oil? So that we can establish military bases throughout the Middle East and Southeast and Southwest Asia? Nearly 2000 American dead so that our corporations can extort money and resources from the people of the region? So that a few wealthy businessmen and women in the United States can continue to gain huge profits at the expense of the American people? (Jennifer Loewesntein) ... READ MORE
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